STATISTICS * USA
* ATA tonnage index rose 1.2% in March
USA -eTrucker, By CCJ -27 April 2007: -- The American Trucking Associations announced today, April 26, that its advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 1.2 percent in March, which was the second consecutive monthly gain. The index increased 1.6 percent in February...
* Report: Container shipments up
USA -eTrucker, by Jill Dunn -27 April 2007: -- Container shipping into the United States is up, and most of those containers enter the country not at ocean ports but by truck or rail from Canada and Mexico, according to federal statistics... A new U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics report states that in 2005, almost 26 million containers entered the United States, up 37 percent from 2000. Of those containers, 15 million came from Canada and Mexico... The United States ranks second only to China in world maritime container traffic. U.S. container trade in 2005 and 2006 was more than double the trade of a decade ago. Two-thirds of the containers are imported into the United States, one-third exported to other nations...
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